Color Examples

Continuing from last week here are a few examples:

Color contrast / complement

Saturated red against desaturated blues and greens by Howard Pyle

Oranges against blues by Maxfield Parrish 

Color behaves in context

Grays appear warmer then they actually are surrounded by cools by Mead Schaeffer

grays appear cooler they actually are against warms by 

Maxfield Parrish 

it's amazing how the grays looks like violets in  this context